Ashleigh Barty will fulfil a childhood dream when she plays in Saturday’s Wimbledon final but Karolina Pliskova stands in her way of achieving a more significant one.
 
Barty is attempting to win her first Wimbledon title on the 50th anniversary of fellow indigenous Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley’s maiden crown. 

Pliskova is driven more by proving to her “brutal critics” she was right in sticking to her style of play rather than alter it radically as the former World No. 1 dropped out of the top 10.